Friends In The Dark Poem by Butch Decatoria

I wonder how your birthday suit would taste
On Groundhogs Day

I'm curious how cool your touching hands
In our peppered moods?

And yet I think you're my favorite
Acquaintance and infliction

Upon the eyes' leisure,
When there I bite my tongue,

As timid as tangerine Suns slow to set,
Our silence still telling and wet...

I consider and call you friend
For you disperse the grey and heavy

The thunderheads of sadness
Replacing it with regalia and levity

So stylish your scintillation of conversations
Your body language like turquoise pools

Refreshing views and clear cuts through
The babble of the rabble not much to say

You must be from tomorrow's new
Breed of brutally honest and humorous

All other spewing hubris
But you must be from a stranger world

An alien place to be so you...
Yet like Summers, in the heat of our youth

The moments that Deja vu
And dream out loud our foggy recollection

The friends I have called true
Come and go like falling stars

But the brightest stay where they map the night
There you are so brilliant a far away sight

You must be a real friend, a guide and then
After we have spent all hours blindly high

Oh truest North, the bosom of your light,
Keep all the lonely ones in awe

The brightest hearts alight

Must be a friend, accompany me here
Then and since
In the dark...

No matter how far
Hark for thou art a shining
Star.

(In pitch darkness
A diamond made priceless
Thou art…)